Comments on: behavioural and biscuits

By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:39:34 +0000

John, p-g, its really good to hear your memories of H&P. My post is a bit of a ‘list of facts and figures’ rather than a story made up of what people felt about H&P and how it influenced their lives – which is much more interesting.

I’ll definitely be putting something up on Simmonds and Suttons later

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By: p-g

p-g — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:58:15 +0000

Nice one, Wendy.

My first summer holiday job was with H&P in the early ‘fifties – the pay was about thirty bob(shillings) per week, but there was a certain illicit access to “Penguins” (surely a new arrival then, after the years of post-war austerity?) – and my particular favourite: “Reading Shortbread”.

Perhaps you might consider a feature sometime on Simmonds (brewery), and Suttons (seeds)? Reading was known for the three ‘B’s – biscuits, bulbs and beer. Not with the same economic and philanthropic impact as H&P, but significant, nevertheless.

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By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:02:57 +0000

Expat, it is sad that the company no longer exists. What Huntley and Palmer’s did for Reading town is wonderful and longstanding – the parks and public facilities, the quality schools and I beleive the diversity of culture here is due to the tradition of Quakers, of considering all men equal. Reading town has the largest population of Bahan’s outside f barbados – partly because they could get jobs, and rent accomodation, here (less descrimination than in London. It is good to live in a town with such a strong tradition of respect for people of different cultures….
I hope that cheers you up a bit!

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By: ExpatEgghead

ExpatEgghead — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:46:11 +0000

I feel sad now.

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